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U.S. President Donald Trump's outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to end the war with Ukraine comes amid jockeying among leaders for spheres of influence while China seeks to exert its clout.
A map by Newsweek outlines how this global chess game might play out. A Trump call with Putin in March and American-led shuttle diplomacy in Saudi Arabia showed the resolve of the U.S.
president, even as the war rages on despite talks yielding a 30-day ceasefire proposal and a deal to stop Black Sea strikes. But the process to end the war has echoes of the Yalta conference in 1945 between U.S.
, U.K. and Soviet leaders that preceded the Cold War division of Europe, according to Vessela Tcherneva, deputy director the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
Map Shows How Trump, Putin Could Carve Up The Globe Map Shows How Trump, Putin Could Carve Up The Globe Photo Illustration by Newsweek/Getty Images "Yalta was about great powers deciding about the future of Eastern Europe," she told Newsweek. "This is what it looks like regarding Ukraine now." "Deciding Ukraine's future without Ukraine is also deciding about Europe's future without Europe," she added.
The discussion of Ukraine's future sparked comparisons of another World War II meeting, according to Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham in England. He said Trump's refusal to give Ukraine security guarantees was akin to the appeasement of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in 1938. Wolff believes the current U.
S. president sees the world as one in which great powers carve out spheres of influence which they don't interfere in. "We are probably going to see superpowers divvying up the globe between them—China and the.
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